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CW: discussing transphobia, misogyny, sexism
Today's short video:
#topless #transWOMEN banned from #WhiteHouse #Pride event but not topless #transMAN
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cte7IESOgim/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
at a #biden #government sponsored #pride event, a group of #transwomen #trans #activists were banned from attending future #whiteHouse events for the heinous unforgivable sin of posting chests-without-tops videos to #socialMedia, while the #transMAN right next to them who was ALSO chest-without-top, DIDN'T get banned. how curious!
honestly if you're surprised, you're not paying attention
over and over I've said, what better demonstrates the blatant #sexism and #misogyny of how a #transfolk or #nonbinary person gains or loses the right to go without a shirt in public and on #socialMedia? how is it not #transphobic AF to tell a transman "we don't care what you identify as- until you've had #topSurgery, #thepatriarchy has decided that you still look too female, and therefore will still be subjected to #censorship that all #AFAB and all #cisWomen face"? how is it not transphobic to say to a transwoman, "good thing you are flat chested with broad shoulders, that means you still get to enjoy the freedom to go shirtless in public as all AMAB and #CISmen!"? and that's not even getting into the nonsense of assigning gender, and therefore restricting rights, of those who identify as #genderless or #genderfluid!
WHY ARE MORE PEOPLE NOT OUTRAGED BY THIS?? how are the vast majority of #Americans, even supposed #liberals, #leftists and #progressives, just so unthinkingly accepting of this continued #injustice? -
I feel that #future of #feminism hinges on our #transmasc brothers.
Us #transfems have already said and contributed a lot to #theory. Now I feel it's time to hear our fellow transmascs.
They face some interesting intersections of #privilege and non-privilege specially around their bodies. If they pass, they will be seen as people who don't menstruate and who don't get pregnant even tho reality is quite often the opposite. Additionally, their experiences with #testosterone and loss of being read as "safe" can give us an standard of sorts to which we can compare the grievances of #CisMen.
The more we have #trans folks (including #enbies) sharing their struggles and stories the more we can refine our understanding of #gender and #sexism.
This also helps us see how a lot of the problems with men are not about just straight or cis or cishet men but about that very tiny intersection of the, for lack of a better word, hegemonic default male: the prototype for which #patriarchy serves.